According to a new report, the co-founder of Fusion GPS, which was hired by the Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee to dig up dirt on President Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign, met with the Russian lawyer who also had a meeting with Donald Trump Jr. last year.

The Fox News report said Fusion co-founder Glenn Simpson met with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya both before and after her Trump Tower meeting with Trump Jr.

At the time of the meeting, Fox reported, Fusion GPS was juggling work for interests related to the Kremlin while also retaining former British spy Christopher Steele to investigate Trump.

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“What we are finding out is that there is a lot of Russian influence in Washington, and a lot of money flowing in to influence our political process in Washington,” said Marc Thiessen, a Washington Post columnist and former Bush administration official. “It’s going into Hillary Clinton. It’s going to Fusion GPS.”

Veselnitskaya has said she wanted to meet with the Trump campaign to lobby against Russian sanctions. However, her initial offer talked about providing negative information on Hillary Clinton.

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Fox reported Simpson and Veselnitskaya were in a Manhattan federal courtroom prior to the Trump Tower meeting, and were together after the meeting as well.

According to NBC News, Veselnitskaya and Simpson were at a hearing in which Russian businessman Denis Katsyv’s company, Prevezon Holdings, was sanctioned against doing business in the U.S. for allegedly laundering more than $230 million.

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Simpson has been accused of violating federal guidelines requiring lobbyists to disclose foreign interests in his work with Prevezon.

In July, Fusion GPS denied any knowledge of the meeting with Donald Trump Jr.

“Fusion GPS told me its work on the Prevezon case had nothing to do with the 2016 presidential election and they were not involved in the outreach to the Trump campaign,” Josh Rogin of The Washington Post wrote in a July 11 opinion column.

He then quoted what Fusion told him.

“‘Fusion GPS learned about this meeting from news reports and had no prior knowledge of it,’ the company told me in a statement. ‘Any claim that Fusion GPS arranged or facilitated this meeting in any way is false,'” Rogin wrote.

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Despite its presence in court, Fusion has also tried to distance itself from the Prevezon case.

“Our work consisted almost entirely of supporting the discovery process,” Fusion GPS said recently, according to Politico.

“FGPS has on occasion assisted reporters covering the Prevezon case by clarifying public information from its litigation research and from the court record. … FusionGPS is a research firm and is not engaged in lobbying on this or any other matter.”

A Senate Judiciary Committee spokesman told Fox News they are “encouraged” that Veselnitskaya has “signaled a willingness to cooperate” with the committee as it seeks to get to the bottom of the meeting with Trump Jr.